JSC Kalinin Machine-Building Plant, ZiK or MZiK for short (russian: Машиностроительный завод имени М.И.Калинина, ЗиК, МЗиК) is a Russian industrial business, now part of
Almaz-Antey
JSC Concern VKO "Almaz-Antey" (russian: link=no, ОАО "Концерн ВКО "Алмаз-Антей"») is a Russian state-owned company in the arms industry, a result of a merger of Antey Corporation and NPO Almaz, unifying some of the nat ...
holding.
History
Founded in 1866 in
St. Petersburg
Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...
by a decree of Russian emperor
Alexander II as an artillery workshop, it was later enlarged into a state factory of field and later on anti-aircraft artillery.
In 1918 the factory was moved into
Moscow Region
Moscow Oblast ( rus, Моско́вская о́бласть, r=Moskovskaya oblast', p=mɐˈskofskəjə ˈobləsʲtʲ), or Podmoskovye ( rus, Подмоско́вье, p=pədmɐˈskovʲjə, literally "under Moscow"), is a federal subject of Rus ...
, in 1941 to
Yekaterinburg
Yekaterinburg ( ; rus, Екатеринбург, p=jɪkətʲɪrʲɪnˈburk), alternatively romanized as Ekaterinburg and formerly known as Sverdlovsk ( rus, Свердло́вск, , svʲɪrˈdlofsk, 1924–1991), is a city and the administra ...
(former Sverdlovsk), where it's located up to now.
During
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...
, the factory produced 20,000 anti-aircraft guns, last channel artillery unit under
mass production
Mass production, also known as flow production or continuous production, is the production of substantial amounts of standardized products in a constant flow, including and especially on assembly lines. Together with job production and batch ...
was the 152mm KM-52.
Since the end of the 1950s, the factory is specializing on the mass production anti-aircraft rocket systems (
SAM defence).
Civil products include diesel
[Diesel forklift trucks DP-1604]
and electrical
forklift truck
A forklift (also called lift truck, jitney, hi-lo, fork truck, fork hoist, and forklift truck) is a powered industrial truck used to lift and move materials over short distances. The forklift was developed in the early 20th century by various c ...
s, public service trucks,
[Public service car MK-1500M (w/ vacuum cleaner)]
electrocar
Electrocar, Electrocart is an electric vehicle, typically a small cart with an electrical driving gear and a storage battery.
In the United Kingdom, similar small electric vehicles were known as electric drays.
A typical Soviet/Belarusian electr ...
s,
[Electrocars ET-2054](_blank)
etc.
In 2014,
Malik Gaisin
Malik Favzaviyevich Gaisin (russian: Ма́лик Фавзавиевич Га́йсин; born 26 February 1959, in Sverdlovsk) is a Russian entrepreneur and politician from Urals. He holds, or held, stakes in many major ventures in the region. In ...
was appointed the director of the plant.
References
External links
Official website of MZiK
1866 establishments in the Russian Empire
Defence companies of the Soviet Union
Science and technology in the Soviet Union
Almaz-Antey
Manufacturing companies based in Yekaterinburg
Companies established in 1866
Russian brands
Soviet brands
Companies formerly listed on the Moscow Exchange
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